Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, now owes his accuser, Haleigh Breest, a total of $10 million.
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, was ordered by a New York jury on Monday to pay an additional $2.5 million in punitive damages in a civil rape lawsuit, bringing the total amount he owes his accuser to $10 million. In a 2017 complaint, Haggis was accused by publicist Haleigh Breest of raping her in his Soho apartment four years earlier. Haggis, who claimed he had had a consensual affair with Breest, wasin the case last Thursday.
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